Abstract
To understand the spiritual needs of the patients' family caregiver under Oncology palliative care. A descriptive, qualitative study with 20 family caregivers of patients hospitalized in an Oncology palliative unit. The data were collected through a phenomenological interview, and analyzed by the method of Amadeo Giorgi supported in the Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception. The categories were unveiled: "Spirituality as a foundation for life"; "Spiritual needs sublimated by the family caregiver"; and "Care expected by the nurse". Family caregivers appropriate spirituality as a coping strategy and meeting the purpose and meaning of the moment experienced. It is profitable for the nurse to contemplate the spiritual needs of the caregiver in order to provide a guided assistance in the humanization of care and comprehensive care. Therefore, there is a need for new studies that address this dimension to the family caregiver in the field of Oncology, since this care is incipient by the nurse.
Highlights
Cancer is a serious public health problem where its incidence on the planet has increased by at least 20% in the last decade
Family caregivers of patients who are under Oncology palliative care appropriate spirituality as a foundation to support existential issues, stressful events and traumatizing the role played[4]
Category 3- Care expected by the nurse This category presents the understanding of the primary family caregiver in relation to the care expected by the nurse with an emphasis on his spiritual dimension
Summary
Cancer is a serious public health problem where its incidence on the planet has increased by at least 20% in the last decade. The family caregiver, assuming responsibility for daily and continuous care to the patient, is considered a target of attention since, in general, they experience physical, emotional, financial, spiritual, material and existential disorders, especially when the care offered is prolonged or the cancer is already advanced[3]. In this sense, family caregivers of patients who are under Oncology palliative care appropriate spirituality as a foundation to support existential issues, stressful events and traumatizing the role played[4]. This spiritual dimension - considered as a complex and multidimensional part of human experience - demarcates profound implications for the well-being of the individual, through the production of behaviors and feelings of faith, trust, hope, love, tranquility and inner peace, especially when confronted with an illness, loss, suffering and death[5,6]
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